A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 climate summit, scientists at the United Nations (UN) have warned that the world is on track for 3 degrees C of warming by the end of this decade. This is double the target that world leaders agreed to in 2015, when the Paris Agreement deal was struck and subsequently implemented.
A Greener Life
MARCH 10, 2022
I wrote about it in 2020 and in 2021 , and some themes emerge – Africa dominates, and so does climate change and conflict. The 2022 list found that the world’s most under-reported humanitarian crisis of the last 12 months was Zambia , where drought led to 1.2 Some situations blend all three. million people experiencing hunger.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 13, 2024
I moved to Merced in 2015 to study for my PhD, and I found a place I could call home. The 2024 State of the Air report I work every day on topics related to air in my role as a Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, through my volunteer grassroots work, and because I want to be a well-informed resident in the San Joaquin Valley.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
If you’re not a climate scientist—and maybe even if you are—reading news headlines this month has been confounding and a little scary. “In Climate Threshold ,” was the version at Forbes. degrees Fahrenheit) is a target to limit global-average heating that was adopted by nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement. C threshold?
A Greener Life
APRIL 11, 2022
The IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee during the unveiling of the report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yet again warned us about the climate impacts hurtling toward us at breakneck speed. Photo credit: IPCC / Mark Speight.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Because Mead is so low, the August results triggered the first-ever Tier 1 shortage on the lower Colorado River, a declaration that means mandatory cuts in water deliveries in 2022 to Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico. From that baseline hydrologists feed their model, one by one, with historical weather observations from the years 1981 to 2015.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 2, 2021
Arizona officials, meanwhile, plan to use 69,100 acre-feet of ICS credits to reduce mandatory cutbacks that will be required in 2022 if Mead declines as projected. Udall is a water and climate scientist at Colorado State University who says that ICS has laudable intentions: preventing water waste and increasing water levels in Mead.
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